webpack meets React - feat. the webpack core team

It's about time for another webpack meetup in Munich: The webpack core team (Tobias @sokra, Juho @bebraw, Johannes @jhnns) will be in town to talk about (obviously) webpack, universal web apps and React. We'll also have Benedikt Meurer of the Google V8 team on board with a talk about the odd parts of JavaScript.

## 17:30 Meet & Greet with the webpack team

## 18:30 - 19:00 // webpack Q/A: Beyond webpack 4

We'll have a panel discussion with the webpack core team accompanied by Benedikt Meurer for serious V8 optimization questions. Please provide your questions upfront. We'll announce the channel here soon.

## 19:00 - 19:15 // JavaScript: The Odd Parts (Benedikt Meurer, Google V8)

JavaScript is the new language of choice for many applications, and it’s certainly a great language for many tasks. But it also has some strange quirks. This lightning talk focuses on some of JavaScript’s weird parts, that you usually don’t run into… unless you try to implement a JavaScript VM that correctly follows the language specification.

## 19:30 - 20:00 // The bumpy road to Universal JavaScript (Johannes Ewald, Peerigon GmbH)

Since the mid 90s, developers have struggled to build web applications that can be executed both on the client and the server. And still today, even with Node.js and virtual DOM libraries like React, this can be quite challenging.

In this talk, we'll look at common obstacles and problems that developers face when building this type of web application, including typical performance and security issues. You'll leave the presentation knowing how to build a fast and secure web application that can be rendered on the client and the server.

## 20:15 - 21:00 // One day a module bundler - bundling a web app with only an text editor (Tobias Koppers, Inventor of webpack)

In this talk/live-coding session we try to understand the steps that a module bundler has to do to convert a (small) web app into a bundle. We will use the approach webpack uses, but I also drop some comments about alternative approaches of other bundlers. The web app will also feature some little gimmicks like Code Splitting, Tree Shaking and Scope Hoisting to show the steps involved for these features.

## 21:15 - 21:45 // Case Study - React Finland (Juho Vepsäläinen, survive.js)

Organizing a conference means you require a certain amount of technical infrastructure. We developed a custom website and application for React Finland. In this talk, you'll learn how we did it and how to achieve a modern frontend architecture using technologies such as Webpack, React, and GraphQL. You will also gain insight on the non-technical aspects including marketing and sales and see how they align with technology.